This book describes how insignificance seeps into everyday life. It concentrates on meaningless human behaviors, repeatedly performed although no significance is attached to them. The book expounds on causes, effects, and remedies. It points at how the progressive digitalization of life is turning the relation between subjects and objects, as well as that among individuals, into empty stereotypes; it underlines the causal link between such lack of existential salience and several contemporary ‘obsessions’; it suggests some strategies to resist the alienating effects of the digital bureaucratization of meaning.

论无意味一后物质时代的意义消减 [The Significance of Insignificance]

LEONE, Massimo
2019-01-01

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This book describes how insignificance seeps into everyday life. It concentrates on meaningless human behaviors, repeatedly performed although no significance is attached to them. The book expounds on causes, effects, and remedies. It points at how the progressive digitalization of life is turning the relation between subjects and objects, as well as that among individuals, into empty stereotypes; it underlines the causal link between such lack of existential salience and several contemporary ‘obsessions’; it suggests some strategies to resist the alienating effects of the digital bureaucratization of meaning.
2019
Sichuan University Press
Semiotics & Media
1
232
978-7-5690-3001-3
Semiotica, culture digitali, condizione post-moderna
LEONE, Massimo
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